Congratulations to TerraCycle Drink Pouch Brigrade Program they have saved 50 million pouches from being put in landfills and contributed a MILLION dollars to schools and non-profits!! The Capri Sun beverage brand was one of the earliest supporters of TerraCycle, a company that collects would-be trash and turns it into useful items. The collection program, called the Drink Pouch Brigade, takes place mostly in schools, where children choose to deposit used pouches in special receptacles rather than throw them away. In participating schools, each used drink pouch collected and sent to TerraCycle earns two cents, with the funds going toward needed educational programs and resources. Does your school participate in this program, let us know? Together, students and teachers at over 30,000 schools nation wide have collected 50 million drink pouches for the program over the past two years resulting in the 1 million dollars milestone donation! AMAZING!!!

If you follow My SLC Mommy you've noticed that I've been posting about TerraCycle in hopes to get you and your schools involved and help reduce the amount of waste leaving our homes and heading to the local landfill.  Well TerraCycle is celebrating the Drink Pouch Brigade for hitting over 1 Million paid and over 50 million drink pouches saved fromgoing into a landfill.  TerraCycle is celebrating by thanking the top 100 collecting schools with a very special and unique certificate of recognition framed in a limited edition wrapper frame!

Congratulations to TerraCycle Drink Pouch Brigrade Progam they have save 50 million pouches from being put in landfills and contributed a MILLION dollars to schools and non-profits!! The Capri Sun beverage brand was one of the earliest supporters of TerraCycle, a company that collects would-be trash and turns it into useful items. The collection program, called the Drink Pouch Brigade, takes place mostly in schools, where children choose to deposit used pouches in special receptacles rather than throw them away. In participating schools, each used drink pouch collected and sent to TerraCycle earns two cents, with the funds going toward needed educational programs and resources. Does your school participate in this program, let us know? Together, students and teachers at over 30,000 schools nation wide have collected 50 million drink pouches for the program over the past two years resulting in the 1 million dollars milestone donation! AMAZING!!!

Have you heard of TERRACYCLE? If not you need to check them out. They take trash and Terracycle it into really cool items TerraCycle runs national programs called Brigades, each of which is for a specific waste stream (like the Drink Pouch Brigade, or the Cookie Wrapper Brigade). TerraCycle Brigades are national programs where you can earn cash for your trash (all money is paid to schools and non profits) TerraCycle is excited to celebrate the Drink Pouch Brigade hitting the $1 million mark for schools. That means 50 million drink pouches have been redeemed through TerraCycle fund local school programs nationwide.

Do you remember our last post about TerraCycle called Making Trash Green? You should definitely check it out if you didn't already read it. Basically, schools, churches and groups of all kinds form a brigade and start collecting! There are brigades for drink pouches, Bear Naked, Huggies, and Ziploc bags- to name a few. You simply collect and send- then TerraCycle makes a donation to your non-profit or a charity of your choice. TerraCycle then takes the trash and makes it into something not-so-trashy.

Speaking of environmental education, turns out a lot of schoolkids are already learning about recycling - by doing it in their classrooms. TerraCycle, a New Jersey company that converts waste into eco-friendly products, reports that it has recruited 46,000 "Drink Pouch Brigades" across the US, nearly 30,000 of them schools (60 in Baltimore), to divert the non-recyclable plastic juice containers from landfills and incinerators. So far, TerraCycle says, it's paid out $1.3 million in all for 64 million pouches, funds that schools badly need these days to cover supplies and activities taxpayers don't pay for.

Of all the reusable bags I've amassed over the years -- and not a duplicate among them -- the one that seems to be the favorite of grocery store baggers is the TerraCycle sack made from Capri Sun drink pouches. It's my favorite, too. It's incredibly study, ooze-proof and pretty snappy looking to boot. Apparently, I have schools throughout Philadelphia and well beyond to thank. Today, TerraCycle and Capri Sun announced that  their Drink Pouch Brigade -- schools and organizations that participate in a free fundraiser that pays two cents for every drink pouch collected  -- has broken the 50 million mark.  TerraCycle and Capri Sun pay two cents for every pouch collected, so that means $1 million has been returned to the groups just for stuff that would otherwise be garbage.

There's an old saying that goes, "One man's trash is another man's treasure." Nobody has proved that more true than Tom Szaky. Szaky went from being a political refugee to a Princeton college student to the head of a rapidly growing company called TerraCycle, an "upcycling" company that turns garbage into new products. And he's only 27 years old. His company is at the forefront of turning trash into treasure, of making people more environmentally aware, and of using recycling as a way of helping society. His latest project is called The Brigades, a collaboration with major companies to get people to recycle and help raise money for worthwhile causes such as public schools and non-profit organizations.

A million dollars can go a long way in cash-strapped schools and nonprofits. And, when all that’s required is to save items from landfills, it almost sounds too good to be true. True it is. Schools and nonprofits across the country have now earned $1 million through the TerraCycle Drink Pouch Brigade™ program. At 2 cents a piece that equates to 50 million drink pouches collected over the past 2years. Enough waste to cover the Grand Canyon 9 times. Enough waste to cover 2,000 football fields. Enough waste to weigh as much as 20 full school buses! That's a lot of juice!